2000 Presidents Cup Explained

Presidents Cup
Year:	2000
Venue:	Robert Trent Jones Golf Club
Location:	Gainesville, Virginia, U.S.
Dates:	October 19–22, 2000
Home:	USA
Away:	International
Homecaptain:	Ken Venturi
Awaycaptain:	Peter Thomson
Homescore:	21
Awayscore:	10
Result:	USA wins

The 2000 Presidents Cup was held between October 19 and 22, 2000. It was played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, U.S. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 21–10. The honorary chairman was American President Bill Clinton.

Format

Both teams had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. The competition was four days long unlike the past three tournaments where there were three days of competition. The same number of matches were still played though. On the first day foursomes were played. On the second day four-ball and foursomes was played. On the third day four-ball was played. On the fourth and final day singles were played.

Teams

United States team
Player	Age	data-sort-type="number"	Points rank !	data-sort-type="number"	OWGR !	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances !	data-sort-type="number"	Matches !	data-sort-type="number"	W–L–H !	data-sort-type="number"	Winning percentage
	69	Non-playing captain
	42	Non-playing assistant captain
	24	1	1	1	5	2–3–0	40.00
	30	2	5	3	13	3–5–5	42.31
	42	3	8	0	Rookie
	28	4	3	2	9	4–4–1	50.00
	36	5	7	3	15	8–5–2	60.00
	41	6	12	2	10	3–6–1	35.00
	30	7	13	1	4	1–3–0	25.00
	28	8	32	0	Rookie
	38	9	28	0	Rookie
	27	10	19	0	Rookie
	45	11	23	1	4	2–1–1	62.50
	40	24	31	0	Rookie

International team
Player	Country	Age	data-sort-type="number"	Points rank !	data-sort-type="number"	OWGR !	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances !	data-sort-type="number"	Matches !	data-sort-type="number"	W–L–H !	data-sort-type="number"	Winning percentage
		71	Non-playing captain
		43	Non-playing assistant captain
		31	1	2	2	10	6–2–2	70.00
		37	2	9	3	15	8–5–2	60.00
		43	3	14	3	14	4–6–4	42.86
		35	4	24	1	3	0–2–1	16.67
		29	5	33	1	4	2–1–1	62.50
		31	6	18	0	Rookie
		30	7	36	0	Rookie
		31	8	42	1	5	5–0–0	100.00
		45	9	41	2	10	6–3–1	65.00
		31	10	34	0	Rookie
		29	11	43	2	10	3–7–0	30.00
		37	17	92	3	15	8–4–3	63.33

OWGR as of October 15, 2000, the last ranking before the Cup

Thursday's matches

All matches played were foursomes.

width=160	International	Results	width=160	United States
Elkington/Norman	5 & 4	Mickelson/Lehman
Allenby/Appleby	1 up	Sutton/Furyk
Weir/Goosen	3 & 2	Cink/Triplett
Singh/Els	1 up	Woods/Begay
Price/Franco	1 up	Duval/Love
0	Foursomes	5
0	Overall	5

Friday's matches

Morning four-ball

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Campbell/Goosen	4 & 3	Sutton/Azinger
Weir/Elkington	3 & 2	Lehman/Roberts
Price/Norman	6 & 5	Furyk/Duval
Maruyama/Franco	3 & 2	Woods/Begay
Singh/Els	2 & 1	Mickelson/Love
4	Four-Ball	1
4	Overall	6

Afternoon foursomes

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Allenby/Appleby	2 & 1	Cink/Triplett
Franco/Maruyama	5 & 4	Roberts/Azinger
Singh/Els	6 & 5	Woods/Begay
Campbell/Goosen	4 & 2	Sutton/Lehman
Price/Weir	6 & 4	Mickelson/Duval
1	Foursomes	4
5	Overall	10

Saturday's matches

All matches played were four-ball.

width=160	International	Results	width=160	United States
Campbell/Norman	6 & 5	Sutton/Furyk
Weir/Elkington	2 & 1	Lehman/Mickelson
Price/Els	3 & 2	Love/Duval
Allenby/Franco	1 up	Triplett/Cink
Singh/Goosen	2 & 1	Woods/Begay
1	Four-Ball	4
6	Overall	14

Sunday's matches

Singles

width=160	International	Results	width=160	United States
Allenby	2 & 1	Azinger
Price	2 & 1	Duval
Appleby	3 & 2	Roberts
Weir	4 & 3	Mickelson
Els	4 & 3	Love
Elkington	1 up	Lehman
Singh	2 & 1	Woods
Norman	2 & 1	Cink
Franco	6 & 5	Sutton
Maruyama	5 & 4	Furyk
Campbell	halved	Triplett
Goosen	1 up	Begay
4	Singles	7
10	Overall	21

Individual player records

Each entry refers to the win–loss–half record of the player.

United States

Points	Overall	Singles	Foursomes	Fourballs
1	1–2–0	0–1–0	1–0–0	0–1–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	0–2–0
4	4–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	1–0–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
3	3–1–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	1–1–0
3	3–2–0	0–1–0	2–0–0	1–1–0
4	4–0–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0
3	3–2–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	2–0–0
2	2–1–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	0–1–0
3	3–2–0	0–1–0	2–0–0	1–1–0
3.5	3–0–1	0–0–1	2–0–0	1–0–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	0–2–0

International

Points	Overall	Singles	Foursomes	Fourballs
1	1–3–0	1–0–0	0–2–0	0–1–0
0	0–3–0	0–1–0	0–2–0	0–0–0
1.5	1–2–1	0–0–1	0–1–0	1–1–0
2	2–2–0	1–0–0	0–1–0	1–1–0
0	0–5–0	0–1–0	0–2–0	0–2–0
2	2–3–0	1–0–0	0–2–0	1–1–0
2	2–3–0	0–1–0	0–2–0	2–0–0
1	1–2–0	0–1–0	0–1–0	1–0–0
1	1–3–0	0–1–0	0–1–0	1–1–0
2	2–3–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
1	1–4–0	0–1–0	0–2–0	1–1–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	1–1–0

External links

Official scores

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